You Might Be From Minnesota If..

"You Might Be From Minnesota If.."*
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* you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
* your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...
* snow tires come standard on all your cars...
* at least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm...
* you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
* you can identify a Duluth accent... it's pronounced; Doo-loot
* you know what "cow-tipping" is.....
* you learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off
your bike...
* "Down South" to you means Iowa...
* traveling coast to coast means going from Stillwater to Ortonville.
* a brat is something you eat ...
* you actually miss Rudy Perpich....
* you have no problem spelling Minneapolis..
* you got a passport to go to Wisconsin...
* you used to think Deer Season was included as an official school
holiday...
* your radio dial is "locked" onto 'CCO.
* You can actually pronounce and spell Mille Lacs...
* you know what a bubbler is.....
* the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...
* your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your
blue spruce...
* you think there should be a "FBI go home" bumper sticker on every car
north of Rochester...
* a Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...
* you go out for fish fry on every Friday...
* you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing
shorts...
* when you tell someone where you are from and they say: 'I thought that
was part of Canada...
* your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of July...
* you know how to polka....
* you think that Lutheran and Catholics ARE the major religions.....
* formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...
* all your vacations are in-state, and "up nort".
* you have to go to Florida to get a tan in August...
* you define "swimming season" as "first week in August".
* your 4th of July Family Picnic was moved indoors due to frost...
* you own an ice house, a snowmobile, and a pickup truck
* your sports teams are "The Twinkies" and "The Queens"
* you have more fishing poles than teeth...
* you decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend...
* you need a second garage to store your "stuff"
* when you talk "opener", you're not talking about cans.
* you've got a bass boat, a speed boat, a canoe, and a pontoon..
* you take pride in the winter temps at International Falls
* happiness is owning a "piece of lakeshore"
* you don't mind state taxes because of the "quality of life"
* your major sports events are the high-school hockey and basketball
tournaments
* you go "home" ( to the farm ) for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and harvest.
* you carry jumper cables in your car.
Received on Wed Mar 2 07:14:36 2011